Clifford Feiner, DO, FACP, is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Geriatrics/Palliative Care and Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine.

1. For Immediate Release November 16, 2018
Contact: Damian Becker, Manager of Media Relations
(516) 377-5370
South Nassau Names New Chief of Geriatric Medicine
Cliff Feiner, DO, to help hospital expand geriatrics medicine program
Oceanside, NY — South Nassau Communities Hospital has appointed Clifford Feiner, DO, FACP,
Chief, Division of Geriatric Medicine within the Department of Medicine effective August 2018. Dr. Feiner is
Assistant Professor in the Departments of Geriatrics/Palliative Care and Medicine at the Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount. Sinai. He served as founding chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine at Queens Hospital
Center (QHC).
“Dr. Feiner is a proven visionary and innovator in his field, serving as the catalyst and providing the
direction for enhanced geriatric services to meet the healthcare needs of our area’s burgeoning aging
population,” said Aaron E. Glatt, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA, chair of the Department of Medicine at South
Nassau. “I am pleased to announce that under Dr. Feiner’s leadership, South Nassau’s geriatric medicine
program and services will greatly expand and the residents and communities we serve will greatly benefit from
his continued commitment to compassionate care.”
While leading the expansion of South Nassau’s geriatric in-patient, outpatient and nursing home
services, Dr. Feiner will also be actively involved in the Geriatrics component of South Nassau’s new Internal
Medicine Residency program beginning in July 2019.
As chief of QHC’s geriatric medicine program, Dr. Feiner spearheaded the reorganization of the
hospital’s community-based off-site facilities and was instrumental in the planning, development and
implementation of a 4,400 square foot of outpatient geriatric clinic. He also established a geriatric medicine
curriculum for residents in internal medicine and OB/GYN and medical students.
A Fellow in the American College of Physicians and invited speaker at medical seminars throughout the
New York metro area, Dr. Feiner has practiced both Internal Medicine and Geriatrics for 31 years. He has
served on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Area Geriatrics Society where he organized conferences
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2. and mentored geriatricians-in-training. Dr. Feiner graduated from the New York College of Osteopathic
Medicine at the New York Institute of Technology in 1987, completed an internal medicine residency at Long
Island College Hospital and trained at the world renowned Mount Sinai Medical Center geriatrics fellowship
training program. In addition to geriatric medicine, Dr. Feiner also specializes in Internal Medicine.
The Department of Medicine at South Nassau is comprised of 400 of the most highly trained, board
certified voluntary and full-time Internists and subspecialists, who provide patient centered care in the hospital
and community-based medical practices; conduct vital research for the advancement of medicine; serve as
active members and leaders of prestigious national medical societies and teach and mentor medical students,
residents, and fellows.
The Department provides hospital patients with innovative, high-quality medical care through a
coordinated network of clinical services including the Divisions of Allergy and Immunology, Cardiology,
Clinical Nutrition, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, General Internal Medicine, Hospital
Medicine, Infectious Disease, Pediatrics, Nephrology, Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and
Rheumatology.
Located in Oceanside, NY, South Nassau Communities Hospital is one of the region’s largest hospitals,
with 455 beds, more than 900 physicians and 3,500 employees. The hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit
teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art care. South Nassau also operates Long Island’s only free-
standing, 9-1-1 receiving Emergency Department, located in Long Beach. In addition to its extensive outpatient
specialty centers, South Nassau provides emergency and elective angioplasty, as well as being a designated
Stroke Center by the New York State Department of Health and Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by
the American College of Surgeons and an accredited center of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Association
and Quality Improvement Program.
The hospital has been awarded the Joint Commission’s gold seal of approval for disease-specific care
for heart failure, primary stroke, hip replacement, knee replacement, wound care, bariatric surgery, and end-
stage renal disease, and recently was named as one of only 18 programs in the US by the Infectious Diseases
Society of America as a Center of Excellence for Antimicrobial Stewardship.
Designated a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for outstanding
nursing care, the hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art care in
cardiac, oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain management, mental health and emergency services. South
Nassau also offers Novalis Tx™ and Gamma Knife® radiosurgery technologies, and operates the only Trauma
Center on the South Shore of Nassau County verified by the American College of Surgeons.
South Nassau is the only hospital on Long Island in 2018 to achieve Healthgrades America’s 100 Best
Hospitals for Orthopedic Surgery™, Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award™ and 5-star rating for Total Hip
Replacement, and it was one of just two hospitals on Long Island to achieve Healthgrades 5-stars in Hip
Fracture Treatment.

3. For more information, visit www.southnassau.org.
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